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Professor John Thompson, 1924 - 2017

Posted on
03/03/2017 | Matt Cohn

We are sad to report that Dr. John Thompson passed away on Sunday, February 19th at the age of 92. Dr. Thompson devoted his 33-year career at the University of Illinois to advancing the disciplines of geography and Latin American studies, and has left a lasting impact in both fields.

Dr. Cienciala’s EELS Lab Launches New Stream Habitat Field Site in Northeastern Washington

Posted on
10/21/2016 | Ryan Keeling and Paige Richardson

During the Summer 2016 field season, Dr. Piotr Cienciala led GGIS Master’s student Ryan Keeling and senior Paige Richardson for two weeks of field instruction and data collection at a new field site in the beautiful mountains of northeastern Washington state, just south of the Canadian border. In this research project, Dr. Cienciala’s Ecogeomorphology Ecohydraulics & Landscape Systems (EELS) lab is studying the entire network of streams across the watershed, from small headwater tributaries to much larger main stem channels.

Our department was very visible at the 2016 AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco. In addition to the many excellent paper and poster presentations by GGIS faculty and graduate students, Dr. Julie Cidell was elected Treasurer, Dr. Mei-Po Kwan received two prestigious awards, and graduate students Yoo Min Park and Sandy Wong received prizes for their papers.

Exploring Cities, Crime, and Space with Dr. Brian Jordan Jefferson

More Counties and a New Map for Eastern Illinois Foodbank

Posted on
02/09/2016 | Matt Cohn

In July 2015, the Eastern Illinois Foodbank expanded its service area to include DeWitt, Livingston, and McLean counties, representing an increase of about 6,000 square miles, in which almost 30,000 food insecure families and individuals live. Kristen Costello, EIF’s Development Relations Manager, approached our department for help creating a map of the expanded service area, which now encompasses 17 counties.

Geography & Geographic Information
Science is proud to announce that Professor and Department Head Sara
McLafferty has received the 2015 Melinda S. Meade Distinguished
Scholarship Award in Health and Medical Geography, from the Association
of American Geographers (AAG) Health and Medical Geography SpecialtyGroup (HMGSG). The award was presented to Dr. McLafferty at the 2015 AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Dr. Jim Best Presents Series on the Future of Big Rivers

Two International Workshops Honor GGIS Professor Geoffrey Hewings

Posted on
09/11/2014 | Matt Cohn

This month, two international research groups are holding annual
conferences in honor of Geography & GIScience Professor Geoffrey
Hewings, recognizing his contributions to the study of regional and
economic geography

This award honors him for “his proven track
record of scholarship on Africa; for his dedication to the development
of both the Africa Specialty Group and the African Geographical Review;
and for his lifelong contribution to African Geographic scholarship.”

PhD Candidate April Colette - When it Rains, it Pours: a Case Study of Santa Fe, Argentina

Ph.D. candidate Charles Fogelman, working with his graduate advisor/principal investigator Dr. Tom Bassett, has been awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI) from the National Science Foundation.

A Spatial Data Deluge

Posted on
10/16/2013 | Dr. Shaowen Wang

CyberGIS at Illinois is grounded in both basic and applied research of
technologies and applications that have been carried out by my research
group for more than a decade. As a result, multiple open-source or
open-access software tools (e.g., CyberGIS Gateway and GISolve Toolkit)
created by this research program have been used by thousands of
researchers in a number of disciplines for tackling computing and data
challenges and making scientific breakthroughs.

Lean Times Get Leaner in Northern Côte d’Ivoire

Introducing the Cities and Metropolitan Areas Graduate Specialization

Posted on
01/01/1800 | Matt Cohn

Our department has developed this area of specialization just as cities across the globe are experiencing significant regional and global change. More than sixty percent of the earth's population now lives in cities, and a host of problems are threatening their environments and communities. Our array of urban scholars, both faculty and graduate students, are excited to critically appraise these cities and seek
solutions to their multiplicity of problems.

The Department of Geography & GIScience reaffirms its strong commitment to diversity and equity by providing a welcoming and supportive community for students, faculty, and staff from all cultural, ethnic, geographic, racial, and religious backgrounds, as well as gender and sexual identities.